Football Manager Handheld 2012 is designed specifically for iOS devices and allows you to take control of the greatest job on earth wherever you are and whenever you want. You decide who plays and who sits on the bench, you're in total control of tactics and substitutions as you follow the match live. YOU make the difference!

This year, as well as a host of new features, there is a completely new way of playing Football Manager! The brand new Challenge Mode, allows you to play short-term scenarios, which place you in a certain managerial situation with a clear challenge to achieve your goal.

Challenges:The Saviour Cometh Your team are in a relegation battle half way through the season. Can you take the reins and guide them to safety?Injury Crisis Your team are swamped with injury problems leading to most of your first team players being on the treatment table. Can you keep the results coming in and avoid getting the sack?Unrest at Home Your appointment as manager has left some senior players unhappy. How will you handle the egos? Can you avoid being sacked before the end of the season by still achieving the board's ambitions?The Invincibles Youve gone on a long run without losing. Can you cement your place in history by going the full season unbeaten?

(All of these challenges can be played using any club in the game expect for The Saviour Cometh, which is playable with any club in a league with relegation.)

What else is new?Updated Leagues, Competitions & Transfers - for the 2011/12 season, plus the addition of the Corbett Sports Welsh Premier League, and Blue Square Bet North & South.

Football Manager Handheld™ 2012 is designed specifically for iOS devices and allows you to take control of the greatest job on earth wherever you are and whenever you want. You decide who plays and who sits on the bench, you're in total control of tactics and substitutions as you follow the match live. YOU make the difference!

This year, as well as a host of new features, there is a completely new way of playing Football Manager! The brand new Challenge Mode, allows you to play short-term scenarios, which place you in a certain managerial situation with a clear challenge to achieve your goal….

Challenges:
“The Saviour Cometh” – Your team are in a relegation battle half way through the season. Can you take the reins and guide them to safety?
“Injury Crisis” – Your team are swamped with injury problems leading to most of your first team players being on the treatment table. Can you keep the results coming in and avoid getting the sack?
“Unrest at Home” – Your appointment as manager has left some senior players unhappy. How will you handle the egos? Can you avoid being sacked before the end of the season by still achieving the board's ambitions?
“The Invincibles” – You’ve gone on a long run without losing. Can you cement your place in history by going the full season unbeaten?

(All of these challenges can be played using any club in the game except for “The Saviour Cometh”, which is playable with any club in a league with relegation.)

I started my quest yesterday to make FC united of Manchester into the best Manchester club. I simmed the first season as unemplyed then when they got promoted I applied as manager. The first season went pretty well. 37 wins 3 draws 2 losses. I scored 157 goals and conceded 45 and finished with 114 points. I pretty much destroyed the whole league. My best win was 9-1 and my top striker scored 45 league goals.

Started the second season in the BSP and added some new young players to the team. I have started with 5 wins. The new players are performing well. Also my team is really young as most were promoted from youth system. Lots of potential in the squad.

Hi Marc. When can we expect custom tactics in the game formation menu?

They should be present in the third update (second is in submission with Apple now so the one after that) - they're in the game here but have only just reached QA and obviously need a lot of verification to ensure they operate sanely before they reach you chaps.

We'll be releasing a January transfer update for the game (for free) as soon as possible after that deadline passes (do bear in mind that QA has to be completed after the deadline is completed so probably a couple of weeks lapse).

The usual approach I take with these is to allow users to select whether to use the new January database or use the previous 'start of season' one when they start a new game (that way if your favorite player has been sold from your club you don't 'have' to lose him if you don't want to).

I just hope you're not waiting to sell the 2013 version with inclusion of the iCloud feature.

I'm not that cruel tbh - if you need reassurance, when we did the iPad Universal version last year it wasn't held back until 2012 and was simply released as a free update to that years game .... when something is ready and can improve your experience it'll go into the game.

(so if it doesn't make an update it won't be for want of trying - but there are limitations to what one workaholic can achieve ... at least until my cloning is completed )

I'm pleased to indicate that the second update to the iOS game is now available on the store - details of what is in it are indicated below:

#3.2 - Update 2
Fix loyal manager leaderboard reporting
Fix for specific squad selection method on iPad
Tuning of contract renewals for big-name kids in inactive leagues
Further tuning to transfer system
Further tuning to player regeneration implementation
Allow Inside Forwards in AMC positions
Allow players to retrain as sweepers
Slight tuning of player preferred roles
Allow all exceptionally performing clubs to turn professional
Broadcast Addictedness at the end of a season
Tuning to regen player physical attributes
Some auto-repair code for corrupted save games
Tune unhappiness behavior of young players at large clubs
Fix rare condition where set-piece/corner taker cleared down
Added more player personality information
Fix for excessive friendly attendances in some circumstances
Tune contract renewal amounts for older players on huge salaries
Stop players moaning about not playing if they have long term bans
Further Match tweaks
Fixed grid to pitch dragging bug where game would think formation had changed to a custom one when it hadn't
Fix offering of new contracts to players in reserve sides

Please keep the feedback on the game coming - especially any glitches or things you'd like to see in future versions we're taking it all into account and there will be further updates at regular intervals.

Just to keep people up to date - a new update for the game will be available this evening.

This will include the January database update and various other tweaks and improvements as shown below:

#3.3 - Update 3Fix Scottish loan rules
Show player names on 2d retina pitch more often
Rotating incremental save game
Drag and Drop tactics in match
Stop Man Utd players getting excited and asking for new contracts after winning Charity Shield
Tweaking of match simulation
Text Improvements
January Transfer Database integrated into the game (you get to select to use that or start of season when you begin a game)

I have my iPhone open in PhoneView and I'm looking through all of the English club logos, but I don't see any for EPL clubs.

Is there a way I could drag and drop EPL logos into the game somehow? If they were originally put on the game (even as those 2-color png's) then we could easily rename our files and switch them. But since there aren't any EPL logos listed, is it possible to change them???

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